Bible verse
The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
Isaiah 24:4 · BSB
The verses around it, from Isaiah 24.
1 Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—
2 people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
3 The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.
4 The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
5 The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.
7 The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
8 The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.
KJV
The earth mourneth [and] fadeth away, the world languisheth [and] fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
ASV
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.
ERV
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.
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